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The only security is courage.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
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Military Personnel
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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Courage
Security
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
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Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
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The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Hope is the last thing that dies in man and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
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The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
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